Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means.

We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

There are genuine concerns about the status of children to be sent to Malaysia and also there are genuine concerns about the human rights record in Malaysia.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.